Hi all--
I have a six month-old muscovy duck that has recently started laying eggs in the shack I had built for her and her sister when I hatched them. She's at the point where she returns to the shack every morning around 7am, just before dawn, and lays an egg (she sleeps on a platform I built in the middle of a pond behind our house). We're up to 13 eggs at this point.
Now, I know that a broody muscovy will sit on her eggs when she's done laying them, but my question is whether or not it is possible for a muscovy to lay eggs but not be broody. She just doesn't seem that interested in the eggs except in the morning when she lays another and rearranges the nest she's built. Will she get to the stage where she'll sit on them, or is it possible she'll just lay until she's done and then ignore them?
I have a six month-old muscovy duck that has recently started laying eggs in the shack I had built for her and her sister when I hatched them. She's at the point where she returns to the shack every morning around 7am, just before dawn, and lays an egg (she sleeps on a platform I built in the middle of a pond behind our house). We're up to 13 eggs at this point.
Now, I know that a broody muscovy will sit on her eggs when she's done laying them, but my question is whether or not it is possible for a muscovy to lay eggs but not be broody. She just doesn't seem that interested in the eggs except in the morning when she lays another and rearranges the nest she's built. Will she get to the stage where she'll sit on them, or is it possible she'll just lay until she's done and then ignore them?